Category: Disasters

February 4, 1980 – ABSCAM: New Word In The Dictionary.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6822″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 4, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On this February 4th in 1980, a new Acronym entered our Dictionary –ABSCAM, which stood for Abdul Enterprises Scam or Arab Scam implicated at least 8 Senators and Congressmen over accepting

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January 28, 1986 – “Something Terrible Has Just Happened” The Challenger Disaster.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12345″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”CBS Radio – Shuttle Challenger Explosion bulletin – January 28, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] If you like what we do, would you support it? Become a Patron! January 28, 1986 – the world watched with shock and horror as the Shuttle Challenger,

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January 28, 1994 – Life In Sudden California – L.A.’s Little Earthquake Problem.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6701″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 28, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Even though one of the deadliest earthquakes to hit Southern California occurred on January 17th of 1994, the earth was still shaking some 11 days later, with some 70 considerable aftershocks

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Tehran protests

January 25, 1979 – Postcards From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6669″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979 was anything but resolved. The Pro and Anti-Shah factions were

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Snowstorm with people waiting under umbrellas and walking through heavy snow, illustrating weather news and urban life, captured in a black-and-white photo.

January 21, 1982 – A Deadly Kentucky Coalmine Explosion – The Blizzard Of ’82 – Welcome To The Me Generation.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54416″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 21, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 21, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A coalmine explosion in Kentucky and a blizzard sweeping across the midwest. Just a little of what

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PanAm 103

December 23, 1988 – ‘I Think Something Was Wrong With That Flight’ – PanAm 103 –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”18662″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 23, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] A confusing and disturbing day in history, this December 23rd in 1988. With details about PanAm Flight 103, which exploded mid-air over Lockerbie Scotland emerging, more questions than answers were being

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